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Very nice.

Better than tools.pingdom.com in that it loads all the javascript and code form the site.

Next features that would make it very useful to me are (in order):

- Display timings on the timeline (in Chromium I can't see them, maybe display them on click or hover)

- Recurring checks (of course this is your core. You are already working on this I imagine)

- Different locations in the world (including being able to slice up my reporting based on the location)

- Custom alerts on specific urls (url X cannot take more than Y seconds to load inside my page, beyond more classic ones like total page load time and such)

- Hot cache-Cold cache

- In case of alert also generate a tcptraceroute and compare it to one that is collected every X minutes.

- Ability to set the host header separately (so I can use the IP address in the site url and the host for a specific virtualhost, this is useful when a site is geographically distributed and you just want to cut out the DNS lookup).

Also have a look at many of your potential competitors like Gomez.

The problem is not the 30% fee. The problem is the requirement to offer inside iOS the same or better deal that you give outside of it.

I agree on the obvious difference in market size between giant planes and smaller ones and that it's an easier investment to make smaller planes rather than big ones.

The situation however is not as simple as declaring the end of bigger ones, there is always a problem with long-haul flights, given that we don't want to start making 3 stops to reach an intercontinental destination. While it's true that a plane can go from A to C without going through B it doesn't mean it's always financially convenient for an airline to do so. All of the long flights from SFO to Europe stop at a big hub and this only makes sense because not a lot of people every day need to fly between Europe and SFO compared to internal flights. Having many smaller half-empty planes is not as good as having few pretty full ones in that situation. Lufthansa is going to operate the new A380 on all major intercontinental flights around the world (I'm gonna use it to go back to Europe from SFO in June for example). It might be a niche but new routes are expensive, you can't open countless of them and you can't have low saturation on your planes.

Another issue is airports saturation. LHR is an incredibly busy airport, with currently no plans to open a 3rd runway (the last one cancelled last year), operating at 98% capacity[1]. The only way to move more passengers through it is to increase the size of each plane. It's true that in this situation you would reduce this problem a bit by avoiding to go through LHR and going directly to the final destination but it remains true that a lot of flights just go to LHR as a destination and that it's not convenient for BA to fly the amount of people that fly today (or in the foreseeable future) using more flights rather then less.

It's not by chance that no low-cost airline has any long-haul international flights. It's a smaller market but it's a real market. Evaluating the winner by amount of planes sold rather than on a profit/passenger basis is gonna miss the point.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Heathrow_Airport

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The forum thread on page 3[1] however reads:

  side-by-side comparisons do however indicate that Clang performed as good or better than ICC or GCC when -O2 is used!

And through the link by yread you can see that clang really performs very well overall.

[1]: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?29090-CompilerDeat...

Why do these studies always avoid to talk about the intensity of the excercise for each subject. There's plenty of people at my gym that I've never seen sweating.

It is still slightly better for viewing text and browsing.

According to digitimes (paywall) http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20100526VL200.html

According to our sources, Apple had spoken with Samsung Mobile Display about the possibility for AMOLED panels since the development of the iPhone 3GS, but production capacity remains a big issue. SMD only has the capability to fulfill 50-60% of iPhone orders at the moment even it dedicated all AMOLED capacity to Apple.

Of course, cost is always a concern. AMOLED panels cost US$34-38. TN panels cost less than US$10 and IPS panels around US$20.

AMOLED also has display weaknesses. SMD uses PenTile technology developed by Clairvoyante to produce AMOLED, which is less suitable for displaying text. With Apple quite keen on pushing e-reading businesses, AMOLED may not be the best solution at the moment.

Samsung still has not enough capacity to supply its own lines and client lines with their Super AMOLED display. When looking in the future instead, in July 2011 they are supposedly opening a new 5.5 gen plant for AMOLED technology that will allow them an output of 30M 3" displays per month.

http://www.oled-display.net/new-55-gen-oled-line-from-samsun...

Apple couldn't use SuperAMOLED because of supply issues more than anything.

If you want to tune your database to squeeze every single Mhz and MB on your machine then indeed you need to take the time to learn the parameters that PostgreSQL offers you, and it does offer you those parameters, it's an extra compared to MySQL. But you don't have to, you can pretty much limit yourself to a few configuration parameters that are very useful and would get you 80% of the way, and of course add some monitoring, especially for slow queries.

A good starting point for setting up a database is here: http://www.commandprompt.com/blogs/joshua_drake/2010/03/5_st...

Just call it iCanvas and they are not that happy anymore. Considering that both canvas.com and icanvas.com are already owned, at least icanvas.com seems to have its owner information hidden, so it could actually be the case.

Your body makes more than 60% of the cholesterol that you need daily. 500mg of cholesterol are about 1/3 of what you need every day.

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/NCR332.pdf